The bifacial installation evokes a drawing split into its positive and negative; and the image’s duality is illuminated. The drawing is composed of frame-by-frame major combat scenes from a 2016 remake of 三少爷的剑 (Death duel), a 1977 classic based on Gu Long’s novel of the same name. Inserted into the drawing is transliteration of the first four lines of the novel, from Chinese to Javanese script hana caraka: 剑气纵横三万里。一剑光寒十九洲。残秋。木叶萧萧，夕阳满天。(The sword crisscrosses 30,000 li. The blade freezes 19 lands. Dying autumn. Weeping trees; dusking sky.)
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